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Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, and Sidama and Yirgacheffe in the south produce some of the world's most celebrated beans. This private 4-day journey takes you from the cup back to the tree, meeting the smallholder farmers and cooperatives behind them. Pick cherries and roast beans with a farming family, share a traditional coffee ceremony, visit a Yirgacheffe washing station and raised drying beds, and finish with a professional cupping session in Addis Ababa. The route also takes you through the Rift Valley lakes to Hawassa, making this an ideal trip for coffee lovers, baristas, roasters, and curious travellers.
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Day by day
Your guide and driver will pick you up in Addis Ababa and drive south through the Rift Valley, passing Lakes Ziway and Langano on the way to Hawassa. In the evening, enjoy a stroll along the lakeshore. Overnight in a hotel in Hawassa.
Drive into the Sidama highlands to visit smallholder farms, where coffee grows in the shade of enset (false banana) and native trees. Join a farming family to pick ripe cherries, roast beans over a fire, and share a traditional coffee ceremony. Overnight at a lodge in the Sidama coffee region.
Continue south via Dilla to Yirgacheffe, one of the world's most famous coffee names. Visit a washing station and cooperative to see pulping, fermentation, and the long raised drying beds, and learn how coffee quality is graded for export. Return north to Hawassa for the night.
Drive back to Addis Ababa and finish with a professional cupping session, tasting coffees from different Ethiopian regions side by side, before returning to your hotel.
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Your 4 days finish where they began, in Your hotel in Addis Ababa.
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